1900 – 1941
British author and biographer best known for his brilliant and unconventional biography The Quest for Corvo. Family economic difficulties obliged Symons to leave home and learn a trade at an early age. For three years he lived a life of drudgery, working as an apprentice to a furrier. His formal education was private and scanty; Symons considered himself self-educated and, as a writer, self-made. Employed as secretary and later director of the First Edition Club of London, he became a skilled bibliographer, an occupation he considered dreary and uncongenial to his personal literary and cultural aspirations. His well-received biography H.M. Stanley (1933) was followed by his magnum opu…
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